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About Todd Weir
NBN Episodes hosted by Todd:
February 3, 2016
Atheist Secularism and its Discontents
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought and critical theory. Following the lead of anthropologist Talal…
December 11, 2015
The Past as History
A historiographical paradigm opened in the late 1970s with groundbreaking works on nationalism. To a large extent these were constructivist interpreta…
November 18, 2014
Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany 1880-1914
In this interview with historian Edward Ross Dickinson we talk about sex. Well, actually we talk about the talk about sex. Since Michel Foucault's epo…
October 30, 2014
The Romantic Machine
After the Second World War, the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs described National Socialism as a triumph of irrationalism and a "destruction of reason…
September 26, 2014
The Third Reich Sourcebook
Primary source readers represent an unusual historical genre. Unlike editions, their aim is not to enable the reader to hear, as clearly as possible, …
July 15, 2014
The Modernity of Others
In 1873, the German scientist Rudolf Virchow declared in Parliament that liberals were locked in a Kulturkampf, a "culture war" with the forces of Cat…
March 28, 2014
Empire and Underworld
In Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana (Harvard University Press, 2012), historian Miranda Spieler tells of the transformation of a slav…
February 14, 2014
The Philosophy of Life and Death
Thomas Mann referred to Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) as a "criminal philosopher," a "Pan-Germanist," "an irrationalist," a "Tarzan philosopher," "a cultu…
January 30, 2014
Adam's Ancestors
A report to the General Assembly of Scottish Presbyterians of 1923 contains the following passage: "God placed the people of this world in families, a…
January 14, 2014
The Last Utopia
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press 2010) takes the reader on a sweeping journey through the history of international l…
December 12, 2013
Socialism and Religion
"Christianity and socialism go together like fire and water," remarked August Bebel, Germany's leading socialist, in 1874. The anticlerical violence o…